Re: [RFC PATCH v1] telemetry design overview (part 1)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 8, 2018, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20180608090758.GA15112@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <c3ed8128-1184-8199-06e5-a4e96b2bc7c5@kdbg.org>

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 11:10:52PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Am 07.06.2018 um 16:53 schrieb git@jeffhostetler.com:
> > From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
> > 
> > I've been working to add code to Git to optionally collect telemetry data.
> > The goal is to be able to collect performance data from Git commands and
> > allow it to be aggregated over a user community to find "slow commands".
> 
> Seriously? "add code to collect telemetry data" said by somebody whose email
> address ends with @microsoft.com is very irritating. I really don't want to
> have yet another switch that I must check after every update that it is
> still off.

If you look at the design document, it's off by default and would write to a file on the filesystem. That doesn't seem all that different from GIT_TRACE.

-Peff